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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

People everywhere love Windows.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

I'm a geek.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

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